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Bronson lineage, 1636-1917 (1917)

Author: Sibley, Harriet (Bronson), Mrs., 1873- [from old catalog]
Subject: Bronson family (John Bronson, d 1680) [from old catalog]; Bronson family (William Bronson, 1734-1802) [from old catalog]
Publisher: Dallas, Or.
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Digitizing sponsor: MSN
Book contributor: New York Public Library
Collection: newyorkpubliclibrary; americana

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Reviewer: pbronson - - July 12, 2009
Subject: An English Faery Tale - NOT THE Bronson Lineage
The details of this lineage are based on letters between the author and a Brownson family descendant in Derbyshire, England. The letters detailed a mythological family tale involving Mary Queen of Scots, and assumes a connection between the Derby Brownsons and the Connecticut family from which most folks in The United States with the surname Brownson, Bronson, or Brunson trace their ancestry. These odd "facts" are entirely unsubstantiated.

We can certainly allow the English Derbyshire Brownsons their family stories. Family stories can be fun. However, at this time, there is absolutely NO CONNECTION between the Derbyshire Brownsons and the Brownson, Bronson, Brunson family of Connecticut, that is descended from a family in Earl's Colne, Essex, England.

This book also contains errors in the descendancy as well as the ancestry. It can not be used as a source for serious genealogical research. It can only be valuable if viewed as an example of how not to research genealogy. This book is a lesson of the importance of healthy skepticism, fact checking, and proper citation.

We owe our gratitude to John Insley Coddington. A distinguished genealogist and frequent contributor to The American Genealogist (TAG), Coddington is responsible for uncovering the true lineage and dispelling many myths that were perpetuated about the lineage. He specifically calls out the errors in Sibley's work in a very readable article for TAG. This article should be pasted into every copy of Sibley's "Bronson Lineage".

See:

The Brownson, Bronson, or Brunson Family of Earl's Colne, Essex, England, - Connecticut, and South Carolina, by John Insley Coddington, (TAG, No. 152,vol. 38, No.4, pp. 193-211)

The village of Earl's Colne has been the subject of scholarly study at Cambridge University. The sources that Coddington cites in his article can have been transcribed and can be viewed on line at: http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/earlscolne/

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